STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2942

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2297

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2297 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to add the forfeiture of a vehicle as a punishment for being used in the commission of an illegal disposal of solid waste.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that the illegal disposal of solid waste damages human health and the environment. Your Committee further finds that additional penalties for the illegal disposal of solid waste may deter the practice. This measure will protect human health and the environment by adding the forfeiture of a vehicle used in the commission of an illegal disposal of solid waste as a potential punishment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making the forfeiture penalty an optional penalty in addition to already existing penalties; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2297, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2297, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair